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The '''2001 NPPL Chicago Open''' was the third tournament of the 2001 [[National Professional Paintball League]] season, held at [[Badlandz Paintball Field|The Badlandz]] in Crete, Illinois, from 20 to 24 June 2001. It included five-man and ten-man competition.[1]

[[All Americans]] won professional ten-man, [[Team Strange]] won Amateur A ten-man and Exile won Amateur B ten-man. Shocktech Factory Team and Sharpshooters-Black won the completed five-man divisions.[2][3][4]

== Venue and organisation ==

The venue added a third Hyperball field and renewed its spectator netting. Five-man competition began on Wednesday, followed by ten-man preliminaries on Friday.[1]

Barrel bags were required as barrel-blocking devices away from the playing fields. Production of league identification cards continued, with full enforcement for ten-man players planned for the tournament's final day.[1]

== Five-man competition ==

Heavy rain affected the second day. Professional teams voted to cancel their remaining games because of concerns about injuries in the muddy conditions and agreed to divide the prize pool. No professional finishing order was declared.[1]

=== Amateur A ===

The Amateur A final involved six teams playing five games each.[2]

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Game 4 !! Game 5 !! Total
|-
| 1 || [[Shocktech Factory Team]] || 60 || 2 || 60 || 59 || 58 || 239
|-
| 2 || Deja Vu || 56 || 59 || 5 || 47 || 59 || 226
|-
| 3 || [[Team Strange|Strange]] || 59 || 59 || 7 || 60 || 4 || 189
|-
| 4 || Sinister || 0 || 2 || 59 || 16 || 58 || 135
|-
| 5 || Detroit Impact || 8 || 48 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 60
|-
| 6 || Dutch Boyzz || 2 || 14 || 2 || 2 || 2 || 22
|}

Scores and the complete finishing order are from WARPIG. ClassicScores corroborates the top four.[2][4]

=== Amateur B ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || Sharpshooters-Black || 52 || 59 || 47 || 158
|-
| 2 || Who Kares || 58 || 2 || 49 || 109
|-
| 3 || Hyperion || 6 || 46 || 12 || 64
|-
| 4 || Aces Wild || 4 || 18 || 16 || 38
|}

Scores are from WARPIG; ClassicScores corroborates the placings.[2][4]

== Ten-man results ==

The All Americans won the professional final with 206 points, ahead of Ironmen, Avalanche and Dynasty.[3]

All tables show final-round scores. ClassicScores corroborates the placings.[3][4]

=== Professional ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || [[All Americans]] || 99 || 99 || 8 || 206
|-
| 2 || [[Ironmen (Southern California)|Ironmen]] || 2 || 96 || 93 || 191
|-
| 3 || [[Avalanche]] || 16 || 8 || 96 || 120
|-
| 4 || [[San Diego Dynasty|Dynasty]] || 92 || 2 || 14 || 108
|}

=== Amateur A ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || [[Team Strange|Strange]] || 96 || 99 || 22 || 217
|-
| 2 || Freak Factory || 92 || 96 || 7 || 195
|-
| 3 || [[Naughty Dogs]] || 8 || 16 || 95 || 119
|-
| 4 || Trauma || −4 || 2 || 10 || 8
|}

=== Amateur B ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || Exile || 98 || 41 || 94 || 233
|-
| 2 || Justice || 18 || 33 || 12 || 63
|-
| 3 || Warped Kids || 18 || 18 || 18 || 54
|-
| 4 || X-Men || 4 || 14 || 21 || 39
|}

== See also ==

* [[National Professional Paintball League]]
* [[2000 NPPL Chicago Open]]
* [[2001 NPPL Gettysburg Open]]
* [[2001 NPPL Atlantic City Open]]

== References ==

# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2001/chicago/index.shtml Chicago Open NPPL 2001]. ''WARPIG'', June 2001. Contemporary report documenting dates, venue, organisation, rules and cancellation of professional five-man play.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2001/chicago/5fin.shtml Chicago Open NPPL — Five-Man Semi-Finals and Finals Scoreboard]. ''WARPIG'', June 2001.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2001/chicago/10fin.shtml Chicago Open NPPL — Ten-Man Semi-Finals and Finals Scoreboard]. ''WARPIG'', June 2001.
# [https://www.classicscores.com/ ClassicScores]. “2001 NPPL — Chicago”. Ten-man and amateur five-man top-four placings.

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